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☆ soap opera

Informal a radio or television serial drama of a highly melodramatic, sentimental nature: so called because many of the original sponsors were soap companies

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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